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2025/09/22

September 22, 2025
The dim interior of a rocky cave. There is a small, craggy opening, letting in blue light. Farther inside the cave, towards the viewer, is an eerie scene: a glowing pearlescent sphere that is orange-red with tinges of purple. The sphere reflects blue light from the opening, but is also giving off its own reddish-yellow light that reflects off the cave walls. It is hanging from the ceiling, fixed to it by small threads as though it’s a cocoon or an egg. Whatever’s inside it isn’t visible. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/21

September 21, 2025
A blue, foggy scene at night. Looming out of the fog is a church, several windows glowing with an eerie blue light. Approaching the church in the foreground is a hunched-over creature with a long tail, arms out. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/20

September 20, 2025
A small red mound sitting in the middle of a roaring yellow inferno; the flames of hell. The space is red. The mound has a small red sign planted in it with the word "Reserved". Both the mound and the sign are on fire. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/19

September 19, 2025
A gray, decrepit booth that looks like a devil's head. The head is gray and craggy, with a sharp nose, glowing red eyes, and two horns, one of which is partly missing. The mouth is a blue arched window through which a person can be seen. The booth looks like an admission booth one would find at a low-budget horror park. It's in sad shape: patches of brown where paint is missing, graffiti, and poorly done repairs. It sits in a patch of gray weeds against a yellow sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/18

September 18, 2025
A black cat sits in an unlit room, in front of a giant plate-glass window, looking out. Visible through the window is an eerie scene: a cloudy night, the sky heavy with brown clouds, and a thick black treeline in the distance. Right over the treeline, breaking through the clouds, is a blazing beam of greenish white light. The source of the light is above the clouds, unseen. The light casts a dim illumination over everything. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/17

September 17, 2025
A figure stands against a dark blue, starry sky. Its head is a silver coin, on which is the head of a skeletal-looking person, eyes closed, with odd round knobs where its ears would be. The figure is wearing a suit and tie and lit from behind by a crimson light. In one hand, it is holding a glowing red light saber. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/16

September 16, 2025
An odd-looking figure wearing an orange helmet, orange boots, and a shiny green bodysuit bounces an orange yo-yo. The helmet looks like a cross between a devil's head and Darth Vader: blocky, with a sharp pointed nose and two pointed horns. Its eyes are bright white. The bodysuit has slight creases. The figure is set against a dark, cardboard-brown background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/15

September 15, 2025
A tall, chaotic tangle of wires, tubes, and machine parts sits against a light green background. It vaguely resembles a hill-sized engine. It is a dark green, with tinges of a brownish texture. Sitting on top of it, a person holds a sparking wire that emerges from a hole in the engine, along with several other wires. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/14

September 14, 2025
A dark, flat landscape under a dark gray sky. A pale greenish fog hangs heavy above the ground. Looming up from the horizon, out of the fog, is a tall tower with a pointed roof, a glowing green clock face reading 9:41, and a small chimney. Light-colored smoke is coming out of the chimney. Closer to the viewer, a tall figure wearing a hat and carrying a briefcase walks to the right. The figure has a clock key sticking out of its back. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/13

September 13, 2025
A large balloon that looks like a fish floats over a rocky, dark purple hill. The fish has an iridescent, nearly glowing blue eye. Holding on to a cable dangling from the fish is a person, swinging through the air several feet above the ground. The sky is a bright red, and the underside of the fish balloon is lit yellow with sunlight. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/12

September 12, 2025
A lonely, rocky mountain peak under a yellow-green sky. Sticking out of the peak is a post with a sphere at the top of it. The sphere has a smiley-face carved into it. One half of the sphere is blue; the other is covered with runny neon-pink and yellow paint. The paint is being slathered on by a figure holding a large brush and a pink paintcan. Rivulets of pink, yellow, and blue paint run down the sphere and the posts it’s on, and then on down the mountain. The figure must have been working for a while, since the left half of the mountain is covered with paint. The right half is an emerald green. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/11

September 11, 2025
A scene of desolation and ruin: gray sky, gray rubble. Looming out of the rubble on the right is a structure that anyone who's seen photos of Ground Zero will recognize as a fragment of one of the twin towers. The entire scene is heavy with smoke. A bleary white sun sits in the top right. A small figure stands on a pile of debris, surveying the damage. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/10

September 10, 2025
An odd creature seen in profile with a bright red head; a long, curving horn like a bighorn sheep; a human nose; and a bulging eye and downward-curving mouth like a fish. The horn of the creature is red with white stripes. The rest of the creature is pale green, with a red and yellow zigzag pattern around its waist, like Charlie Brown's shirt. The creature has a red glove with two yellow stripes around the wrist, and it is holding a black phone but not looking at it. It stands in a dark, drab green space, with a glowing white halo hovering above its head. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/09

September 9, 2025
A weird, narrow skyscraper with four round windows, one for each floor. The top window is eerie green, with a green-eyed creature looking out of it. The window below that is orange, and has a dark reddish creature with two pointed ears, and one glowing green eye. The next window is white, and has a blue ghost. The window below that, which is partly cut off, is bright green and has some sort of howling monster with long fangs. A black cat sits on top of the roof. In the background, no other buildings are visible. The sky is a dull, cloudy greenish gray. A wooded treeline is visible. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/08

September 8, 2025
A round, perfectly smooth sphere hangs in a dull burgundy space. Sitting on top of the sphere is a small, dark, cylindrical house with a tall conical maroon roof. At the top of the roof is a red orange pennant. The house has a large arched window. Silhouetted in it, against a bright yellow interior, is the shape of a figure with two pointy horns. There appear to be two sources of light: a bright one in the top right, and a duller bluish one in the lower left. There's a scattering of dull stars in the top right of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/07

September 7, 2025
A hulking humanoid-but-not-quite-human creature stands in a dark gray space under a blazing green-white ceiling lamp. The cone of light pours down around it. It has a disproportionately large upper body, two huge arms, and two small legs. It is mostly in shadow. It is wearing a tan tie and a small ID badge of some sort. Where its face would be are three glowing lights: green, red, and blue. Behind it on the cold gray wall is a round analog clock showing 10:05. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/06

September 6, 2025
A ruined building sits on a rocky hill. The building is a small brick house with no windows, no roof, and crumbling walls with graffiti. The building is a rusty brick-brown color. The sky is the dull green-blue of evening, with a white full moon high in the right side of the sky. Sitting on the left wall of the building is a ghostly white figure, checking its phone. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/05

September 5, 2025
A barren hilltop, set against a yellow sky. The orange-gold color suggests dawn or dusk. Sticking out of the hilltop is a very large, building-sized metal mask. The mask is seen in profile, and has a cold, remote expression. It is a dark blue with the greenish tinge of tarnished metal, and has a few cracks. Directly behind it is a small normal-sized chair, that looks tiny by comparison. The hilltop itself is a dark greenish-brown. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/04

September 4, 2025
A gray scene that could be anywhere from twilight to late night. A person in a suit, a hat, and a badge stands in a dark gray grassy area, pointing a glowing white flashlight beam to the right. In front of them, partially embedded in the ground, is a stone cube with a question mark carved into it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/03

September 3, 2025
A dark, shadowy figure stands in a red space, holding out its arm. A small yellow flame rises from its hand. Seemingly drawm to the flame are two large, dark, blurry birds. The nearest one is bat-shaped. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/02

September 2, 2025
A gray sky; a gray meadow; a gray world. Walking through the meadow is a dark figure carrying a very large portrait. Most of the figure is concealed behind the portrait, which shows a painted head in profile on a white canvas. The head has a cold, impersonal expression, and is rendered in broad, thick brushstrokes of red, gray, and black. Looking a little closer, one notices that the figure seems to be blended into the canvas, as though the head on the painting is the head of the figure carrying the painting. One of the figure's arms is dimly visible through the white canvas. The painting containing the painting—that is, the work you are looking at; the meta-painting, if you will—is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/01

September 1, 2025
A boxy, dull purplish robot stands in dark purple grass against a bright yellow sky. In the top right of the sky is a white sun. The robot's body has a rusty, slightly iridescent texture. In the center is a circular porthole window, through which is visible a goldfish. The goldfish, lit from below with a greenish light, looks translucent. The porthole is surrounded by bolts and rusty holes. The robot's head has a television screen on it, which is displaying a green x-ray image of a goldfish, its skeleton visible. The robot has two long, mechanical arms. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/31

August 31, 2025
The vast wilderness at night. The sky is a deep blue, and filled with stars. Several heavily forested ridge lines extend into the distance. On the furthest one is the silhouette of a large dish antenna, like a radio telescope. A greenish haze hangs over the trees and surrounds the telescope. The telescope has a few white lights blazing through the fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/30

August 30, 2025
A small creature perched on a thin branch. The creature has horn-shaped ears, giving it a devilish appearance, a sharp curved beak seen in profile, and beady, round eyes. It is dark-colored, with iridescent tinges of indigo, blue, and green. Its eye is harshly shiny, with blue and crimson highlights. It has curved striations on its side, all of which make it look machinelike. It has a long tail and is sitting against a bright crimson background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/29

August 29, 2025
An amorphous blob comprised of precisely arranged vertical lines and a cacophanous blend of colors. The lines, while perfectly vertical and regularly positioned, have different heights and positions, suggesting digital video distortions or the raster lines on old cathode ray tube screens. The colors—where to start? Blue, red, crimson, green, and yellow, organized in a way that is somewhere between the dissonant opposite of a rainbow and what you see when you rub your eyes too hard. The blob has six human legs, as though it is several people walking together. In the center of it is a glowing, semi-white icon of an eye. All of this is on a searing blue-green background. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/28

August 28, 2025
A dark, bleak mountaintop under a dark, bleak sky filled with heavy clouds. In the background is the hazy outline of another mountain range. Hovering above the craggy rocks, casting a greenish light, is a small glowing white orb. It appears to be headed towards a round sign planted at the very peak of the mountain. The sign has an icon of a bus on it. This is a primarily dull purple painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/27

August 27, 2025
A small figure kicks a giant, building-sized chess rook over a square cliff with precise edges. The cliff is dark brown and appears to be very narrow. The chess rook is dark, polished mahogany. The sky is a bright red, with a white sun in the top left. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/26

August 26, 2025
A dark, hulking figure—humanoid, but suggestive of a bear or ape, with long clawlike fingers—shambles forwards in a barren brown space. Where its neck would be is a neatly defined hole, revealing a hollow interior, as though the creature is actually a suit or shell moving on its own volition. Hovering above the hole, casting a golden light on it, is a glowing yellow sphere with a smiley face on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/25

August 25, 2025
The most pagan railroad crossing you've ever seen. Only the signal is visible, standing in the middle of high grass. The crossbuck, while a recognizable X shape, looks like antlers or crossed branches. Both signal lamps are glowing red and resemble eyes. Some strands of moss hang from them. The grass the signal is standing in is a dull green; the sky is yellow. There's a hint of a brown treeline in the background. Maybe trains are not the only thing you need to be watching for. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/24

August 24, 2025
A small, very tall house sits on three thin legs on a barren surface of reddish soil. The legs look like those of a Mars lander. The house appears to have three stories: there is a weird metal circular hatch on the first level, two windows on the second, and a single arched window at the top, directly under the pointed roof. The house looks like it may have been something else earlier—a metal machine, or part of a rocket. The surface is rusty, tarnished metal with tinges of red and blue-green. It has odd holes and seams throughout it. The window on the left is a rusty rectangular gap; the window on the right is a well-maintained window with a plant in it. All windows are dark except for the topmost window, which is glowing green, perhaps reflecting the surrounding greenish-yellow sky. A white sun sits in the sky on the left; a dim mountain is visible in the distance. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/23

August 23, 2025
A small, weird vehicle that looks sort of like a condensed reverse pickup truck: a flat bed in the front, with the cab positioned behind it. Behind the cab is a tall black object with a chimney coming out of it. The rear wheel is larger than the front, sort of like a tractor. The truck is a drab green with a yellowish texture, and a yellow light on top. On the bed of the vehicle, held in place with belts, is an odd object: a tall, white, lumpy creation that looks sort of like a pickle. The background is a bluish-green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/22

August 22, 2025
A person stands on a skyscraper. The left face of the skyscraper is illuminated with a bright greenish light that fades to a blurry indigo; the right face is mostly in shadow, with only one glowing window visible. The skyscraper stands against a primarily dark indigo sky, the contrast of which particularly brings out the green light. The middle of the sky has a bluish glow to it. Standing on the roof of the skyscraper, the person is flying a white kite with a red tail into the dark part of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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